Sunday, November 30, 2008

Read the clue, read the clue, read the clue



There are no words. Please bring Toni and Dallas back for All Stars. Please, please... Photo by CBS.com

Hear that? That's the sound of my heart breaking as the last "good" time was eliminated from "The Amazing Race."

Toni and Dallas were always kind, always thoughtful and just all around good sports. Unfortunately, Dallas made a game-killing error in the race and that got them Phileliminated. Poor Dallas, he couldn't count Stalins and Lenins and then he left their money and passports in the cab.

Then they didn't READ THE CLUE and had to restart. It was sad.

So I'm rooting for the inept frat boys to win because it would serve Starr and Nick right to lose and as well as the bickering Kenny and Tina. If the frat boys win, it would be the biggest win in the history of the race!

Sunday, November 23, 2008

24: Redemption!



Oh Jack.I missed you. I can't wait until Jan. 11!!!! Photo by Fox.com.

It seems like it's been forever since we've seen Jack in action. Tonight's "prequel" to season 7 (Can you believe it?) wraps up some loose ends and starts a whole new season.

At the end of last season, we saw a beaten and lost Jack Bauer who had to make a choice to sacrifice his love for Audrey so she could have a normal life.

We catch up to him in the fictional country of Sangala, Africa where he's found a refuge with a former colleague who's running an all boys school.

Jack has become close to one kid named Willie and his brother and appears to be somewhat happy. Unfortunately, it won't last.
In Sangala an evil general seeks to obtain power and he's using the innocent children as soldiers to help fight his war.

Meanwhile, it's inaugration day in Washingon as a new president, Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones) takes office. This war is landing right on her lap.

It turns out the war is connected to a Washington insider who's financing the war and when a friend of the first son uncovers the plot, he winds up killed.

Back in Africa, one of Jack's charges defies orders and goes to town and is almost captured when they are ambushed by soliders. As they attempt to flee, they're shot.

At the school, Jack is being hassled by the U.S. forces who tells him he needs to come back home and answer charges of torture. Jack offers to leave the school when he gets word that the children are in trouble.

The rest of the time is spent trying to get the children to safety at the U.S. embassy. Along the way, Jack is tortured and even manages to kill someone with his knees!

Of course, we know that Jack gets the kids to safety and the president is inaugurated but it's the preview to the next season that adds to the excitement.

Without spoiling, expect the unexpected!

Friday, November 21, 2008

Hope and heartbreak



While Marc and Betty battled it out for a prestigious training program, it was the C plot of Justin and Randy that I cared most about. Photo by ABC.com

Last night, the 8 p.m. hour on CBS and ABC was the strongest of the season as "Survivor" and "Ugly Betty" both aired the best shows of their respective seasons.

I've already blogged about "Surivor" (Randy YES!!!) and now it's time to talk about Justin.

The A-plot had Betty and Marc trying to fight to get a position for a training program for young editors. (Kudos for the writer for finally fleshing Marc out as a person with ambition and kudos for them for humanizing Wilhemena and boo on who ever is dressing Betty!)

The B- plot was how Willie is after Connor and finally deciding to give up.

But it was the C-plot which was the attention grabber for me.

A few weeks ago, Justin tried out for a play on Broadway and learned that a bully from school secretly loved to dance and wanted to be on Broadway too. They've been hanging out and it was clear that Justin was having feelings for this boy and it was also clear that the boy kinda liked Justin too.

But then, our friend peer pressure stepped in: Randy was spotted with Justin by his jock friends and they secretly mocked the two. And of course what happened? Randy dissed Justin and went back to the friends.

I sat on my couch and had my heart break because I KNOW that moment! I'm going to change names to protect the innocent, but years ago when I was in school, there was a guy who broke my heart in the same way.

He too was a jock and we discovered that we shared a love for comic books after I spotted him in the comic book store one day. Soon, it became our ritual to meet up at the front gate of my school and walk to the comic book store together. We discovered we shared a love of the same music, movies and more. He was my McDreamy back then.

Then one day, we were coming out of the comic book store and he was spotted by his team. The next week, I waited for 30 minutes and he didn't show. At school he avoided me. Finally one day, he tried to bully me in the school cafeteria and of course, NO one messes with TheRemote and so a fight ensued.

Needless to say, I got some punches in and so did he, but he looked worse than I (I don't advocate fighting BTW) and we never spoke again. Over the years, I never forgot him and although this may sound cheezy, I have a feeling he was watching and somewhere out there, we connected again.

I hope that ABC has the courage to not end the Justin/Randy thing because let's face it, kids are coming out younger and younger and while this show hasn't openly addressed it, it's clear that the whole family knows about Justin and doesn't care. I loved that Hilda told Justin not to EVER change and always be himself.

It's a lesson we all need to be reminded of from time to time.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Hallejuh!



Randy! Finally, these people got a clue and voted your butt off!. Photo by CBS.com

Can you hear it?
It's my laughing hysterically in what will I'm sure go down as one of the BEST "Survivor" episodes ever!

But first things, first: I'm sorry "Survivor: Gabon." I was ready to bail on you but my lord, you came through tonight in spades!
The last few episodes were in a word: AWESOME as people are really playing the came and true colors are shining through.

Tonight was the annual "Survivor" auction and as usual, people were fighting for items such as chocolate, peanut butter and beer. Randy cleaned up with beer, spaghetti etc. And then he bought cookies for the tribe: it was here where "Cookiegate" was born.

Randy offered Sugar a cookie. She politely refused. He offered her again and she refused again. Then he proceeded to tell everyone he was the boss and alienated people.

Finally Sugar gave her cookie to Matty and that made Randy very sad.

Randy decided to seek revenge by being mean to everyone under the assumption that Bob found the hidden immunity idol. Unfortuantely he didn't know that Sugar had it and Bob trusted Sugar to show him his fake idol. (I did notice that Sugar didn't let Bob in on her secret that SHE had the idol. And isn't it odd that she's shown NO ONE the idol and they are all under the assumption that she has it?)

Later, after Ken won the immunity challenge. Randy then went off even more. Bob then gave Randy the FAKE idol and he and Corienne thought they had the upper hand.

Instead, THEY were the ones that looked like chumps. IN the words of Crystal "Goodbye and Go HOME!."

Monday, November 17, 2008

Bored now....



Tracy (Ali Larter) changes sides on tonight's episode. Does anyone really care? Photo by NBC.com.

Earlier tonight, my friend Jump the Snarkwere at the day job and he told me that he had a few episodes of "Heroes" stacked up on his TiVo. (I envy him with his high end TV and TiVo but I digress...)

Ordinarily, I'd have tried to make him feel guilty but instead, I thought to myself, you totally can erase all of these episodes, read the recaps on move on with your life.

This season has been Bo-RING. Seriously. I know some people who've loved it, but not me.

After a great start, this thing has spiralled out of control. I'm not looking for the shark just yet, but let's say it's close by.

Here's what's wrong:

Payoff: I feel like I'm being strung along. There's no payoffs along the way and it's like they are throwing everything and the kitchen sink at this thing and still no good results.

Characters acting dumb: Let's look at Exhibit A: Hiro. I don't care about him. I don't care about his story. Why can't he and Ando be part of the action for a change instead of teleporting around the world. Surely there's an American branch of the big company he owns. Why can't he and Ando move to NYC and be done with it.

Claire: While I was all about Saving the Cheerleader, I'm now thinking: Who cares? And why is it, that she's the most important person on this show? Now she's the key to everyone having powers?

People you don't care about: Matt Parkman, I'm looking at you.

Lack of power development: People's powers should grow over time. Take this show. While the premise was kinda dumb, you did see them practice and learn about their powers and over time, they proved to be pretty formidable foes.

The next chapter is called "Fugitives" let's hope they don't mean the fans fleeing from the show.

Bored now....



Tracy (Ali Larter) changes sides on tonight's episode. Does anyone really care? Photo by NBC.com.

Earlier tonight, my friend Jump the Snarkwere at the day job and he told me that he had a few episodes of "Heroes" stacked up on his TiVo. (I envy him with his high end TV and TiVo but I digress...)

Ordinarily, I'd have tried to make him feel guilty but instead, I thought to myself, you totally can erase all of these episodes, read the recaps on move on with your life.

This season has been Bo-RING. Seriously. I know some people who've loved it, but not me.

After a great start, this thing has spiralled out of control. I'm not looking for the shark just yet, but let's say it's close by.

Here's what's wrong:

Payoff: I feel like I'm being strung along. There's no payoffs along the way and it's like they are throwing everything and the kitchen sink at this thing and still no good results.

Characters acting dumb: Let's look at Exhibit A: Hiro. I don't care about him. I don't care about his story. Why can't he and Ando be part of the action for a change instead of teleporting around the world. Surely there's an American branch of the big company he owns. Why can't he and Ando move to NYC and be done with it.

Claire: While I was all about Saving the Cheerleader, I'm now thinking: Who cares? And why is it, that she's the most important person on this show? Now she's the key to everyone having powers?

People you don't care about: Matt Parkman, I'm looking at you.

Lack of power development: People's powers should grow over time. Take this show. While the premise was kinda dumb, you did see them practice and learn about their powers and over time, they proved to be pretty formidable foes.

The next chapter is called "Fugitives" let's hope they don't mean the fans fleeing from the show.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Read. the CLUE!!!



The day I've been waiting for has arrived. Terrance and Sarah are now gone! Hallejuh! Photo by CBS.com.

While I like this show, it makes me furious. Why or WHY can't people read the clue!

Tonight, NOT reading the clue was almost the undoing of the Frat Boys.

And I kinda want them to win the race because they seem to be the everyman that does this. There are TWO Non-elimination legs left, I'm guessing one will be next week and the other the week after with the finale coming in December.

Tonight the two teams that participated in the fast forward had to eat some nasty sheep's butt and it I were on the race, it would be at this point I'd say. "We've lost. Take me to the hotel."

So who's left: Ken and Tina who've calmed down but I still hate her. Nick and Starr who I hate. and Toni and Dallas who I LOVE. So I'm rooting for them or the frat boys. Sadly, I think Nick and Starr might have this inthe bag.

It's not you, it's not me well, it is you, more than me...



Lily Tomilin and Kathryn Joosten make "Desperate Housewives" must see Sunday TV. Photo by ABC.com

I am way too busy.
I realized this today when I fell asleep this afternoon, while working on a project for the second job.
Along the way, I also realized that I've been neglecting this blog and that's sad because blogging makes me very happy.
Luckily, in the next few days, I'll be getting some free time as some shows are going on winter hiatus or just leaving the airwaves.
By far, my favorite show has been "The Real Housewives of Atlanta.". It also seems as America has fallen in lovewith the group too as they were featured in The Bible aka "Enterainment Weekly." along with some of Bravo's other stars. The finale airs Tuesday at 10 p.m and to show you how much I love this show, I'm going to RECORD "Law and Order: SVU" and watch "Housewives" instead.

My other favorite show has let me down. "America's Next Top Model." While I still love this show, I wasn't feeling this cycle AT all! I'm calling McKey for the win on Wednesday. I'm hoping to watch it at a friend's house on her flat-screen TV, that is if we can find the vermin who "misplaced it" at Fed EX.

Thursday night will free up in a few weeks. We're doing the merge on "Survivor" and it looks as if it could be anyone's game at this point. I have NO one to root for but I don't want this guy to win.

"Ugly Betty" is still on point and it looks as if they finally are getting back to what we loved on Season 1. Although whomever is dressing Betty needs to be fired. There's ugly and there's tragic. We clearly are into tragic territory.

Sunday has been getting better and better. I'm actually watching "60 Minutes" these days and then that bleeds over to "The Amazing Race" and then to "Desperate Housewives."

"DH" is back to Season 1 good. At first, I was skeptical with the five-year jump, but it appears it was JUST what this show needed!

Monday, November 10, 2008

Continuity shenanigans



Elle was shoehorned in the origin story of Sylar. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Photo by NBC.com

Color me disappointed.
Tonight, "Heroes" tried to fill in the gaps in their story by having Hiro go on a spirit journey to discover what when on to bring them to the present day.

Unfortunately, they told a half-ass story and used some old footage to try to fool fans.

Tonight's story focused on the Petrelli clan and how Arthur wound up in that coma and how he fooled his family into thinking he was dead. It turns out that he had used his power on Angela and scarred her mind and forced his thoughts on her. (Mind rape?) Only when Linderman "healed" her she enacted a plan to take him down.

Meanwhile, we discovered that Meredith and Mr. Blue Flame (sorry, he's so minor to me, his name hasn't stuck with me yet) are brother and sister. Of course, this makes him Claire's uncle. (How many family connections are we having on this show?)
We discover that she was a bad girl and then was made an agent and then freed her brother and was caught.

She was set free once HRG's boss decided took pity on her when she told him how The Company "killed" Claire. Of course this takes place at a train wreck she caused and where Claire illustrated her powers of near invulnerability.

The main story was how Elle tricked Sylar into killing someone so that they could study how his power worked. Of course, this contradicted the WHOLE FIRST SEASON where they were looking for Sylar and how no one knew what he looked like and where he was. But of course, excuse me for continuity.

The episode ends with Daddy Petrelli getting the drop on Hiro and apparently absorbing his powers....

Episode Grade: D for DUMB.

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Even Anderson Cooper loves "Housewives of Atlanta"


Anderson Cooper just went up a few notches because he too loves NeNe from "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." Photo by E! online.

OMG. I freaking LOOVE this show. The drama, oh the drama!
I'm hyperventilating because of the drama.

This post is a few days late because the original airing was on Election Night and no WAY was I going to miss Barack Obama's speech.

So I caught the show this morning and even REWATCHED it tonight and was totally entertained.

If you're not watching, here's what you missed.

The war between Sheree and NeNe heated up as they both fought for Kim's attention. It looks as if Sheree won Kim because Kim was told about a song that NeNe sung in a limo about Kim.

Kim is under the delusion that she's a country singer but the girl can't find a tune if someone gave her a map with directions. She went to a voice coach under the recommendation of producer Dallas Austin who wants to record a song with her called "Tightrope." It's bad when the Kim's 6-year-old daughter sounds better when Kim does.

And speaking of the song, NeNe sang a hilarious song about Kim and her "career" as a country singer. Unlike Kim, NeNe can actually sing.

Lisa and Deshawn seems to be pushed to the side because they had next to nothing to do in this episode. Although I think Lisa was the one who ratted NeNe out to Sheree about the song and Sheree told Kim who was furious. So furious that she sent NeNe a text calling her a "low-rent bitch."

Other gems from this episode: Kim to audience "The voice coach kept nitpicking me and wanted me to learn the ABC of singing. What do I care, I'm a singer."

Kim to Dallas Austin: "She asked me how to spell cat and I said 'k-a-t."

NeNe's song: "I say I'm twenty-nine but I look eighty-niiiine....."

See what you're missing? Watch! Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on Bravo!

I noramally avoid politics...




but this speech moved me so much that I had to post it.

Friday, November 07, 2008

It's called outwit, outlast, outplay



Poor Marcus, you were nice eye candy but alas it was time for you to go. Photo by www.survivor.com

I gotta hand it to CBS. They know how to put on a good show. This season has had so many twists and turns that it's not even funny. Tonight's twist: Good food but no merge.

Yep. The tribes were all set to merge and instead they got shuffled. It really hurt Marcus because the problem was that he thought he was in control and instead the little people fought back and got him.

Poor Charlie is going to be heartbroken when he sees Marcus is gone. Over in Fang, Matty and Sugar fight to stay alive and Matty wins tribal immunity and spares himself from council.

Next week, more twists!

Madonna....



No, it isn't one of Madonna's hot back up dancers. This is JD from the TV show "Workout." And I had better seats than him at the Madonna concert at Dodger Stadium! Video by Hulu.com

So last night, some friends and I drove up to LA to see Madonna in concert. The show was amazing!! Now, you might be confused and asking your sell: How does this relate to TV?

Well it sorta surreal as dozens of TV stars showed up for the show. I spotted: Chris Kattan, Ryan Seacreast, Jillian Michaels (holding her girlfriend's hand), Ross the Intern and Hayden Paniterre.

But the one who thrilled me the most: JD from "Workout!" I worked up the nerve to talk to him and I told him that he was the best thing on the show and he smiled at me. I copped a quick feel of his biceps, the boy is built like a rock!

One thing I learned: TV makes people look taller because I was shocked at how short a lot of these folks looked!